Monfi brings focused clinical psychological care to people living with cancer, life-limiting illness, and the challenges of palliative care — delivered in the comfort of your own home, across inner and south-east Melbourne.
Get in touchCare that comes to you — and leaves something behind.
Monfi is for adults navigating serious illness — people carrying questions that deserve careful, unhurried attention, in a place where they feel at home.
Newly diagnosed, in active treatment, in remission, or living with advanced disease — including through to end of life.
For people whose focus has shifted from cure to quality of life. Sessions come to you, wherever home is.
Grief before death is real.
Mourning what is already changing deserves the same attention as grief after.
Who am I now? What still matters? Illness forces these questions into focus — Monfi is a place to take them seriously.
Serious illness changes the dynamics of our closest relationships. Monfi can help find language for what's happening between you and the people you love.
Monfi works within a five-session package — a focused, defined course of support shaped entirely around your situation.
Get in touch using the contact details below, or ask your GP or specialist to refer you directly. No formal referral is required.
Remy will call within a few days to hear about your situation and confirm that Monfi is a good fit.
All sessions take place in your home, anywhere across inner and south-east Melbourne — at a pace that works around your health and energy. No travel, no waiting rooms.
Each session is shaped by what you're facing right now — your fears, your relationships, and what matters most to you.
After each session, a verbatim transcript and a clinician-reviewed summary are provided securely — something to return to, share with family, or pass to future treating clinicians. If you'd rather a session not be recorded, just say so — it won't affect your care.
There is no fixed agenda and nothing you need to prepare. Remy comes to you, sits with you wherever you are most comfortable, and follows your lead. A session usually lasts around an hour, but can be shorter on days when your energy is low. It is a conversation, not an assessment — always oriented toward how to live as well as possible from where you are now. The past matters when it helps. But what drives the work is your goals: what makes the life ahead meaningful, tolerable, or even, in some ways, good.
Five sessions is the complete package. As the final session approaches, Remy will talk with you about what has been helpful and, where relevant, support you with a referral to another service for any ongoing needs.
Health and energy are unpredictable, so sessions are easy to move. You can reschedule or cancel at any time — including at short notice — at no charge. There is no cancellation or late fee.
Monfi's clinical model draws on Solution-Focused Brief Therapy as the structural spine, with meaning-centered and existential therapy woven through as the work requires. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Cognitive Behavioural Therapy are integrated where they fit — selected for each person's needs, not applied by protocol.
"Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms — to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way." — Viktor E. Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning
Sessions begin from your goals, not a predetermined programme. We work from your existing strengths and find small, concrete steps forward.
We explore what remains meaningful — legacy, love, identity, and the attitude you bring to what cannot be changed. For existential distress and the search for purpose.
Where practical tools help, skill-based psychotherapies can assist with identifying and reframing maladaptive thoughts, sitting with uncertainty, stepping back from thoughts or feelings, clarifying values, expressing yourself honestly with family, friends, carers, and your health team, and practising mindfulness.
Remy Lindner is a registered clinical psychologist with more than fifteen years of experience in hospital, community, and private practice. Since 2022 he has been Senior Psychologist at one of Australia's largest public health services — a role he created — delivering psychology to patients living with cancer and palliative care needs in their own homes across Melbourne's south-east. He has been working with people living with cancer and approaching end of life since 2017, and has pursued advanced psycho-oncology and palliative care training since 2019. He is a Board-Approved Supervisor (Psychology Board of Australia), and his published research includes a peer-reviewed study in the Journal of Affective Disorders (2020).
Why this work? Because the questions that come with serious illness — about meaning, fear, love, regret, and what it is to have lived — are too important to leave people facing alone. I started Monfi because the best psychological care should not stop at the hospital door. Coming into someone's home, on their terms, in the place where their life is actually being lived, is a privilege. My aim is simple: that no one has to carry the hardest part of this on their own.
Monfi brings the focused clinical psychological care of hospital and community settings directly into the homes of people facing the most demanding questions life can present — in the place where those questions are actually being lived.
Remy Lindner · Registered with AHPRA (Psychology Board of Australia), registration no. PSY0001128626. Full professional background and CV at psychologist-melbourne.net.au.
Not the suffering removed — the meaning found within it.
Monfi is a dedicated service with a clear and deliberate focus. It's important to understand what falls outside that scope.
Call Lifeline on 13 11 14 (24 hours) or Triple Zero (000) if you are in immediate danger.
Monfi works alongside your oncologist, palliative care team, and GP — not in place of them.
Monfi works within a five-session package. If ongoing support would be helpful after that, discharge options and onward referrals are discussed as part of the process.
All sessions are conducted in person, in your home. Monfi does not offer video or phone consultations.
VAD conversations are welcome, but registered psychologists cannot guide the formal VAD process. For VAD-specific support, contact the Statewide Care Navigator Service on (03) 8559 5823.
Monfi sessions are $500 each. There are three ways to access funding, depending on your circumstances.
If you are receiving a Home Care Package or Support at Home package, psychology sessions may be covered by your package budget. Speak with your package coordinator to confirm eligibility and arrange funding.
With a Mental Health Care Plan (MHCP) from your GP, Medicare currently rebates $174.35 of each home session (MBS item 80015) — an out-of-pocket cost of $325.65 per session. Your GP can refer you for up to 10 sessions per calendar year. If you've reached the Medicare Safety Net threshold for the year, your rebate may be higher.
No GP referral is required. You can contact Monfi directly and begin the process without a Mental Health Care Plan. Some private health insurers may offer a partial rebate under extras cover — check with your insurer.
Remy offers individual clinical supervision and bespoke training workshops for medical, nursing, and allied health practitioners — drawing on his experience in psycho-oncology, palliative care, and brief therapy in medical settings. More about this work at psychologist-melbourne.net.au.
Individual supervision for psychologists, social workers, nurses, and allied health practitioners working with patients facing serious illness. Sessions held at Melbourne Health Rooms, 179 Centre Road, Bentleigh.
Custom workshops for medical, nursing, and allied health teams — delivered at your workplace or at the Bentleigh rooms. Half-day, full-day, and multi-session formats available. A certificate of attendance is provided, and workshops are structured to count toward self-directed CPD for most professions (APS, RACGP, ACRRM, Ahpra/ANMAC). Formal CPD endorsement can be arranged on request.
Creating trust quickly, even with patients who are frightened or guarded.
Structured approaches including SPIKES — and what to do in the moments after news lands.
How distress presents in oncology and palliative care, and when and how to refer.
The clinical distinction, why it matters, and why the right response looks different.
Practical frameworks including NURSE for working with intense emotion without deflecting or shutting it down.
Death anxiety, loss of meaning, and fear of being a burden — how to respond with presence rather than avoidance.
Exploring values and end-of-life wishes in a way that feels human and patient-led.
Strengths-based, goal-oriented tools applicable across medicine, nursing, and allied health.
Compassion fatigue, vicarious trauma, and what a sustainable clinical practice actually looks like.
Legacy, love, identity, and attitudinal freedom — how Frankl and Breitbart translate into everyday clinical interactions.
Introductory and awareness-focused. A single topic explored through didactic content, case vignettes, and discussion. Suitable as a CPD session or team meeting input.
Skill-building format with structured practice, role play, and case discussion. Covers more ground or goes deeper on a high-priority topic with time for skill rehearsal.
For teams building sustained capability over time. Sessions spaced to allow practice between meetings and reflection on real clinical encounters from your own setting.
Monfi works alongside oncologists, palliative care teams, GPs, and home care providers. Referrals are welcome from any source — including the patient themselves.
As a small private practice, Remy reads every enquiry himself and endeavours to respond promptly — and if Monfi looks like the right fit, he'll call you for a brief conversation about your situation.
Availability: not taking new patients until October 2026. You're welcome to email now — Remy will let you know honestly whether an October start could work for you. If you can't wait, your GP can refer you to a psychologist with earlier capacity under a Mental Health Care Plan.
Monfi is committed to protecting your privacy and handles personal and health information in accordance with the Privacy Act 1988 (Cth) and the Australian Privacy Principles.
Last updated: 20 June 2026. The information on this website is general in nature and does not constitute clinical or professional advice.
When you contact Monfi by email, we collect your name, contact details, and any information you choose to share about your situation. When you become a patient, Monfi also collects health information necessary to provide psychological care, including session notes and summaries. Health information is sensitive information under the Privacy Act 1988 (Cth); your consent to its collection is implicit in your decision to make contact and proceed with care.
Information is used solely to respond to your enquiry and to provide and coordinate your care. Email enquiries are received directly into Remy's inbox — no enquiry data is transmitted to or stored by any third-party server. Clinical records are held securely in accordance with the record-keeping obligations of the Psychology Board of Australia.
Sessions are recorded and transcribed through Halaxy, an Australian clinical management platform. You can access your transcript securely through the Monfi patient portal after each session. Remy also provides an AI-generated summary of each session, which he reviews and approves before it reaches you. All clinical data is stored in Australia. You may decline recording at any time — just let Remy know before the session begins, and it will not affect your care.
Your information is not disclosed to third parties without your consent, except where required or authorised by law. With your consent, brief summaries may be shared with nominated treating clinicians (such as your GP) to support coordinated care.
Clinical records are retained for the period required by law — generally a minimum of seven years from the last contact, or until a young person turns 25, whichever is longer. Enquiry messages that do not lead to care are deleted once they are no longer needed.
You may request access to, or correction of, the personal information Monfi holds about you. To do so, or to raise a privacy concern, email remy@monfi.com.au. If you are not satisfied with the response, you may contact the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner at oaic.gov.au.